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ANDERS' O. ERIOSSON AND DAVID ANDERSON, OF SALEM, SOUTH DAKOTA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 672,894, dated April30, 190] Application filed March 2, 1900. Serial No. 7,067. (No model.)

To all whom, Lt may concern:

Be it known that we, ANDERS O. ERIOSSON and DAVID ANDERSON, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Salem, in the county of McOook and Stateof South Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBinders, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in binders, and particularly inthe construction of the reel and in the means for adjusting the positionof said reel.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figurel is a front elevation of the reel-carrying part of the binder. Fig. 2is an elevation of one end of the reel. Fig. 3 is a detail of one end ofthe reel with its supporting-shaft partly broken away. Fig. 4 is an endelevation of the reel opposite to that shown in Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is aview of the operating cables or cords.

In the drawings, A represents the cutterbar platform, and 2 the carryingwheels. Supported upon the framework 3 and 4at the opposite ends of theplatform are the guides 5 and 6. Slidable in the guides 5 and 6 areframes 7 and 8.

B represents the reel, the central shaft 9 of which incloses and rotatesupon a hollow shaft 10. The ends of the hollow shaft 10 are secured toboxes 11, which are slidable in the vertical openings in the frames 7and 8, said boxes 11 forming bearings for the ends of the shaft 9. Theblades 13 of the reel are pivotally supported on the ends of the arms 14by means of pivots l5 and are adjustable upon said pivots by means ofthe blades 16, each provided with a curved slot 17, in which a pin 18 onthe arm 14 projects. The pins 18, as shown in Fig.- 3, are provided withthumb-nuts, by means of which the blades are secured in adjustedpositions. In order to adjust the height of the reel, we provide a lever19, having afulcrum-support in the frame 7 and connected at its innerend with the adjacent boX 11 of the reel-shaft. In order tosimultaneously raise the opposite ends of the reel as power is appliedthrough the lever 19, we provide. a series of cables passing through thehollow reel-shafts and com nected with the opposite frames 7 and 8. Asshown in Fig. 5, there are three cables 20, 21,

and 22. The cables 20 and 21 are connected to the opposite ends of thebottom of the guide 5, from where they are carried around the pulleys 23and 24, upward and around the pulley 25, thence down around pulleys 26and 27, through the shaft, where they are crossed over the pulleys 28and 29 at the opposite end of the shaft, thence down around the pulley30, and thence to points of attachment with the opposite ends of theguides 6. The cord 22 is connected tothe lower art of the frame 7,passing around pulley 3l,through the reel-shaft, over a pulley 32, andthence to a point of attachment with the upper end of the frame 8. Itwill be seenthat the cables which at one end of the reel pass from theshaft downward at the opposite end pass from the shaft upward, so thatas one end of the reel-is raised by its actuating-lever the cables inbeing held taut will evenly raise the opposite ends of the reel. Inorder to secure the reel in horizontally adjusted positions, the pin 33,passing through the bottom of the frame 7, is adapted to project intoopenings 34 in the frame-guide. The pin is actuated by a cord 35,connected with a dog 36, carried by the lever. A pawl and ratchet 37 and38, carried by the lever and frame 7, respec tively, are provided tohold the reel in adjusted position, said pawl being actuated by a cord39, connected with a dog 40,carried by the lever. The reel is actuatedthrough the medium of chain-connected sprockets 41, 42 43, and44,connecting the reel-shaft with the operating parts of the machine andsupported by lever-arms 45.

The important features of our invention are the means for adjusting theposition of the blades of the reel, allowing the blades to be positionedto properly strike different heights of grain, and, second, for slidablysupporting both ends of the reel, and the cables for causing both endsto be evenly raised.

We claim 1. In a binder, the combination with the reel, of frameworksupporting both ends thereof, and the means for raising and loweringsaid reel, and cables passing through the shaft of the reel and securedadjacent the ends thereof, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a binder, the combination with the reel mounted upon a hollowshaft, of framework supporting both ends of said reel, a lever bearingagainst one end of said reel, and adapted to be actuated to raise andlower the same, and cables passing through the shaft of the reel andsecured to the framework, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

ANDERS (J. ERICSSON. DAVID ANDERSON. Witnesses:

ELGIE H. EVANS, 'H. S. JOHNSON.

